{"id":2523,"date":"2009-12-07T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:37:12","slug":"fixing-a-broken-government-program-more-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2523\/fixing-a-broken-government-program-more-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a Broken Government Program: More Spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That seems to be the solution from Senate Democrats seeking to broker a political path toward government-run health care.<\/p>\n<p>With the public option running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1209\/30255.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">low on support<\/span><\/a>, Senate Democrats are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/12\/07\/senate-dems-may-open-up-m_n_382728.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">floating a plan<\/span><\/a> that would lower the age for Medicare enrollment to as low as 55.<\/p>\n<p>According to Senate Democrats, even though Medicare has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/pub\/ba662\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$89 trillion<\/span><\/a> in long-term unfunded liabilities, adding a few million patients to the ledger shouldn\u2019t be a problem.\u00a0  Brilliant thinking.<\/p>\n<p>More of CFIF on health care <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/tag\/health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That seems to be the solution from Senate Democrats seeking to broker a political path toward government-run health care. With the public option running low on support, Senate Democrats are now floating a plan that would lower the age for Medicare enrollment to as low as 55. According to Senate Democrats, even though Medicare has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,235,38],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-medicare","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}